Reliance Power on Tuesday started
operations at its 100-megawatt solar energy plant - claimed to be the
world's largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project - built at a cost
of Rs 2,100 crore in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district. The company said
this is the world's largest in the solar power space
using the latest technology available today in renewable energy and has
been set up along side its 40-MW photo-voltaic project in the Jaisalmer
district of Rajasthan. The project was won by an arm of Reliance Power,
Rajasthan Sun Technique
Energy, by way of an international competitive bidding and the
electricity generated is being sold to NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a
subsidiary of the state-owned enterprise.

The
project "has been successfully synchronised with the grid and power
generation has commenced with this project, Reliance Power's generation
capacity has increased to 5,285 megawatt (MW), which includes 5,100 MW
of thermal capacity and 185 MW of renewable energybased capacity," the
Anil Ambani group company said in a news release. The project is the
largest investment undertaken by any private sector entity in CSP
technology in India, it added. The technology for the project has been
supplied by Areva Solar of the US, an arm of the French power major,
with minimal environmental slip, lesser land requirement, and with more
efficiency, Reliance Power said in a statement.